Vol. 01 Ch. 09 - This life is real

Previously ...

Arthur: So my name is Phantasm D Arthur, and it seems like {LUCK} is working.

Maria: "Do whatever you want. But you have to bring home and introduce me to my future son-in-law, maybe two or three will make the atmosphere of the house not boring anymore."

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Ring legacy of Arthur's father who had seven gems that may have to absorb Rainbow Mist who make it have its dimension inside and time stopped or very slow compared to the time here. But these items need to be tidied up first.

Following Sebas to the ground floor, Arthur tried to open a box that was in the middle of the ring's dimensions. Without difficulty, Arthur opened the box and found an apple fruit shaped like an apple and had a motif like a butterfly's wings. And this devil fruit is not included in the list of devil fruit encyclopedias that he has memorized.

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Arthur: "Sebas, this is..."

Arthur could not continue his sentence because he wanted to vomit seeing the scene in front of him. During this time he was confused because none of the slaves were seen by Arthur while at home. And apparently, all of his grandfather's slaves were here. Why he knows that 'they' belonged to his grandfather because Maria should never have slaves for as long as she held her thought.

Sebas: "Saint Adam ordered to bring all slaves headed to the basement and not to let the slaves appeared in front of the young master Arthur. But this time the young master sent himself down to the basement, so I did not take any action."

Arthur: *sigh* "Gather the data of the slaves who have no criminal record, I want all the data to be ready before dinner time."

Sebas: "Yes, young master Arthur."

Sebas who followed behind Arthur continued their steps towards the basement warehouse room. Arthur stepped slowly and watched the slaves one by one. They all numbered more than 50 and came from various race's origins. Ranging from ordinary humans, Fishman, long leg, giant, and mink also became slaves. All the faces of the slaves, of course, showed negative emotions, some showed the face of anger, fear, sadness, despair and some even seemed to have no emotions anymore. Saint Adam only used slaves who looked charming to be employed as servants in his home. Sebas who saw Arthur examining the slaves felt mixed feelings.

Sebas: "Young master Arthur, these servants are ready to help you to lift the boxes you want." Sebas pointed at the men in black suits.

Arthur: "No need, I want to be alone. Order them all to guard the entrance and not let anyone in before I call you."

Arthur entered the warehouse alone and closed the entrance leaving Sebas and the servants to guard outside the room. Arthur took a chair and sat in front of a stack of empty wooden boxes, he grabbed the wooden box with his right hand. Arthur began to focus his mind on the ring with the intention of move wooden boxes and shelves in front of him to the storage ring, suddenly everything vanished into the room in a ring to leave a space in the warehouse.

Arthur began to separate the existing gold and precious stones. He put jewelry accessories that could be used in one box, and gold bars, gold furniture, precious stone materials, raw materials, and money each to a separate wooden box. After finishing arranging the valuables, Arthur changed to arrange the food items in separate boxes. The scattered books are arranged on shelves according to their respective topics such as libraries. Likewise the existing weapons, Arthur neatly arranged and stored them. As for the weapon that needed treatment, Arthur took it out of the ring and put it in a box for maintenance by Sebas later.

During the sorting of items in the storage ring, Arthur just sat cross leg focusing his mind without moving so it did not require much energy. Finished arranging the boxes in the storage ring room, initially the items that filled the storage ring now used space is less than one-third of the storage ring room. Finally, Arthur took out the boxes one by one to be labeled according to the name of the items in the box with paints that had been carried by Sebas, yellow for boxes containing gold and other valuables, green for boxes containing food supplies, red for boxes containing weapons or ammunition and unlabeled boxes containing items that Arthur did not recognize.

When it was almost time for dinner, Arthur finished and left the warehouse. Sebas and the other servants bow down to greet Arthur who had walked out of the ground floor.

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Sebas: "Young master Arthur, here is the data of the slaves you want. Of the 64 slaves in the basement room, only 13 slaves were completely clean from the criminal record. 9 slaves only had a record of minor crimes. I add it maybe young master Arthur needs it." Sebas handed over the files that had been prepared to Arthur.

Arthur: "Thank you, good job, Sebas." Arthur took the file from Sebas and read it while heading to the dining table because dinner time was short.

Sebas: "No need to say thanks, I am there to fulfill the orders of young master Arthur." Sebas answers proudly.

When he got to the dining table Arthur had finished reading the files of slaves who should not become slaves according to him. Of the 21 slaves, 15 slaves were female and 6 slaves were male. And 9 slaves were children. They are not anime characters in One Piece anymore, but they all have lives, feelings, and are not entitled to such treatment if they are innocent. Arthur realized that he could not get rid of this slavery system right away, but at least he wanted to allow slaves who had no mistakes when captured by slave traders to have freedom again.

Arthur: "Grandpa, I want 'them' all who in this file." Arthur asked his grandfather by showing the file from Sebas.

Saint Adam: "So you go to the basement. If you already know then it's up to you if that's what you want." Just glance at the file Arthur gave and Saint Adam continue his dinner.

Arthur: "Sebas please clean 'them' and give 'them' new clothes. I want to meet 'them' tomorrow morning."

Sebas: "Yes, young master Arthur. I will do it soon."

Maria: "Are you going to tell Arthur about 'that'?" Maria, who had only been quiet for lunch, asked her father.

Saint Adam: "Arthur, you must know the history of Tenryuubito and the void history, don't you?" And Arthur just nodded his head to answer his grandfather's question.

Saint Adam: "Do you also know that the Nefertari royal family of the Alabasta kingdom actually Tenryuubito but refused to live in Mary Geoise?" Once again Arthur just nodded his head.

Maria: "Our family, Amenome, also wants to reject the title Tenryuubito and remain in the kingdom of our ancestors. But the Nefertari family suggested that our family's ancestors continue to accept this opportunity and try to improve the system from the inside while they change the system from the outside. But until now our family still cannot fulfill the wishes of our ancestors."

Saint Adam: "And grandfather also has to look after our family's appearance so that it still has a place in Mary Geoise. So grandfather still bought slaves that other families offered."

Arthur: "So that's why grandfather let mother go on an adventure. But why did you bring mother back?"

Saint Adam: "At that time, grandfather had no intention of bringing your mother back, but when the marine did a big mission they met your mother's ship. So I asked Sengoku to save your mother's life and bring her back to Mary Geoise."